File entitled Missions in Britain 1950s
- IE IJA ADMN/3/64
- File
- 1953 - 20 February 1960
File entitled Missions in Britain 1950s containing eleven sections: Introductory letter from Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 February 1960, 5pp);
- report for Irish Fr Provincial (8 January 1958, 8pp);
- list of places and dates of Irish Missions in Britain 1949 - 1959 (19[59], 6pp);
- copies of commendatory letters (7 November 1953 - 24 November 1958, 3 items);
- Report for Irish Fr Provincial on Missions 1958 - January 1959 and cuttings from the [Irish Independent] on the Mission Campaign in Britain by Fr Leonard Sheil SJ (20 January 1959, 3 items);
- three ‘typical’ reports on three 1959 Missions for the Bishop of Ferns (1959, 4pp);
- ‘Account of an Ideal Mission for the Bishop of Ferns’ by Fr Sheil (n.d., 7pp);
- press articles by Fr Sheil describing the Missions (September - October 1958, 6 items);
- photographs of Birmingham and Westminster Cathedrals, Brompton Oratory, photographs of ‘children of the Irish’ (13 items) and
- map of England indicating the routes of Fr Sheil’s motorcycle travel (1 item).
Also includes booklets and advertising leaflets for the Missions (7 items) and memorandum for Irish Fr Provincial by Fr Sheil containing suggestions for better organisation of the Missions (1959, 2pp).